Who’s Using Amazon Web Services?

The Widespread Use Cases of AWS

With an understanding of different types of AWS services, let us take a closer look at how AWS’ marquee clients are using this innovative cloud service. According to Contino insights, here is a brief summary about few of the popular AWS use cases:

Netflix

The streaming giant Netflix is one of the prominent early users of AWS. It relies heavily on AWS for its computing and storage needs, including databases, analytics, and video transcoding. It accomplishes all these by leveraging around 100,000 server instances of AWS.

Unilever

Unilever relies heavily on AWS’s cloud-based option to support its 1,700 digital marketing web assets worldwide. They are able to accelerate the launch of their websites and make rapid changes to their marketing campaigns after migrating to AWS. AWS remains Unilever’s preferred choice of cloud for comprehensive backup and disaster recovery.

Shell

The energy giant Shell was looking at ways to protect itself from cyber threats. It was in dire need of a cyber-threat hunting function to detect the vulnerabilities. Using EC2, Shell has created cyber security capabilities to analyze real-time and historical data to shield itself from cyber-attacks and threats.

Airbnb

The property owners and traveler’s rental marketplace, Airbnb is a longtime user of AWS. It leverages Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to manage its core applications, search servers, and other AWS cloud products to handle incoming traffic between the servers for data processing, dissemination, and backups. By using AWS services, Airbnb has scaled its operations cost-effectively.

Lenovo

Lenovo, one of the largest technology companies in the world, is an esteemed customer of AWS. Lenovo needed the right tech stack to automate modeling and forecasting steps to drive predictions. They incorporated advanced AWS technology to create an automated machine-learning platform for data scientists to rapidly construct, deploy, and use machine-learning models. It allowed Lenovo users across the cloud to build world-class prediction models easily and quickly to scale up operation cycles.

Wrapping Up:

Being the first entrant to the cloud service market proved to be a vantage point for AWS. It is leading the cloud pack with a whooping market share of 32% as it maintained its position by staying relevant. It never stopped innovating and built wide array of nearly 200 fully featured services, making it a compelling cloud leader. Around 150+ companies with a billion-dollar tag prefer using AWS as their cloud service provider to improve developer and customer experience and gain a competitive edge.